My phone will not read a SIM anymore so I cannot use data. I downloaded mapfactor to be able to look offline at the maps. The maps have downloaded but won't open unless GPS is online. I cannot see anyway to turn on GPS without wireless and also I don't understand why I can't just view the maps as they are. Be grateful for any help asap as I am travelling and tis a real issue right now.

:-) no, I am just a normal user, just like you. I am just quite active in this forum.The only two guys from MapFactor, who are answering in this forum, are tomas and mdx. So let's wait what they say to your error message which according to tomas, never should have appeared.

That's why we have to wait for mdx. I don't know whether he is the app developer, but other than tomas, he has the insight into the code.

mdx, your turn, please ;-)

PS: By the way, tomas is right that the app actually is able to show the map without GPS. I have never seen this error message neither. Must be something special with your device. But hey, believe me, there are some (or lots?) of issues, that only affect my device ... All documentated in this forum ;-)

Did you check your system settings? In my previous phone (Alcatel) I could switch off GPS to save power. But not one single application could switch it on again. I really had to do that in the system settings and then my apps could use the gps again.

Hi hvdwold, the point is that I want to find out why I can't use the maps without gps as tomas says should be possible. Hoping that mdx can shed some light. Just telling me it's possible without a how is not helping.

No light from mdx - Tomas is right, and I can only verify it tomorrow back at work - what version of Navigator do you have? There is "hand icon" in normal operation, and you will get message in info panel, that you do not have GPS ... try search and show on map ... maybe you have location somewhere in the middle of ocean.

Hi Jennifer,That is not what MDX means. If your device doesn't have GPS coordinates, it might well go to 0,0 which is in the middle of the Antlantic ocean. So please search for a town (Roma?) and try to display it on map.

Äähm. Why should you have online capability for GPS? Off course GPS as such does not need data. Only so called assisted GPS (aGPS) downloads up to date satellite data, which help to speed up finding satellites and "fix" them. But GPS also works without such assistance, just time to fix them may be longer. S4 mini also has Glonass capability, which is location service by Russion satellites. It also need no data capability.

As somebody earlier said just to not tap just "map". You may up somewhere where you have no map downloaded or in the middle of an ocean ...

From the S4mini manual to activate GPS:

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Quick setting panel

From the quick setting panel, you can view your device’s current settings. Drag down from

I have a tablet without GPS and without SIM slot and Mapfactor Navigator works fine, showing maps and letting me plan routes, etc, even with wifi turned off and without of course, detecting my position.. and I am in Italy too :)